Read in November 2012

November was a fun month for reading, in terms of new-to-me authors (Elena Ferrante, Lydia Peelle, Ellis Avery, James M. Cain, Colin Cotterill, Marge Piercy, and especially Tessa Hadley), and exploring different countries and cultures (the amazingly researched Japanese tea ceremony in The teahouse fire, Cameron Highlands, Laos, Naples, Korea, and of course lovely England and the US).

My favourite reads of the months were The English Patient, Persuasion, Married Love: and Other Stories, My Brilliant Friend.